On the second day we went up a different mountain, Mount Hotham.
It's taller and has much more snow.
Towards the top there are no trees and the snow was piled up high on the side of the road. In some sections they had metal barriers on the side of the road next to sheer drop offs. They were buckled and bent where cars had slid in the snow and hit them, they probably saved a lot of people from cannoning over the cliffs.
At the top there is a very exclusive resort and you have to pay $45 just to park there. But if you continue past Hotham you...

Mount buffalo is awesome.
The drive up the mountain is visually spectacular, with fabulous views and beautiful eucalypt forests with cold clear streams running over waterfalls and rapids.
We stopped halfway up the mountain, below the snowline, to do a walk trail that went past 3 waterfalls. The bottom fall was the gorgeous Ladie's Bath falls. This had a beautiful clear swimming hole surrounded by ferns and mossy green rocks.
Continuing up the walk trail we came to the magnificent eurobin falls, a wide waterfall over a huge solid rock face,...